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Verbal semantics

Index of SIL publications on Verbal semantics listed by country.

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General works

• HORTON, Bruce, author. 1996. "What are copula verbs?."
• LEE, Keedong, author. 1996. "Getting at the meaning of ‘make’."
• MCKERRAS, Ross, author. 1986. "Some ins and outs of ‘come’ and ‘go’."
• MERRIFIELD, William R., author. 1992. "Concerning Otomanguean verbs of motion."  
• POPE, Anthony, author. 1984. "Some motion verbs in Mark."
• TURNBULL, Bruce F., author. 1986. "A comment on Ross McKerras’s article ‘Some ins and outs of "come" and "go"’."
• VANDELOISE, Claude, author. 1996. "‘Touching’: a minimal transmission of energy."

Works specific to particular countries

Africa

Cameroon

• WATTERS, John R., author. 1985. "The place of morphology in functional grammar: the case of the Ejagham verb system."

Côte d’Ivoire

• BENTINCK, Julie, author. 1979. "Les propositions séquentielles en niaboua—propositions dépendantes ou indépendantes?."
• EGNER, Inge, author. 2003. "Applicative marking in Kru."

Liberia

• EGNER, Inge, author. 2003. "Applicative marking in Kru."

Americas

Brazil

• CROFTS, Marjorie, author. 1981. "Um comentário sobre os verbos cognitivos e emotivos mundurukú."

Chile

• GRIMES, Joseph E., author. 1985. "Topic inflection in Mapudungun verbs."

Colombia

• BARNES, Janet, author. 1992. "Verbos de movimiento en Proto Tucano."  
• MANSEN, Richard A., author. 2005. "Distribución de los verbos emotivos en la negociación de disputas en el guajiro."

Mexico

• CASAD, Eugene H., author. 1998. "Lots of ways to GIVE in Cora."
• CASAD, Eugene H., author. 2001. "Where do the senses of Cora vaʼa- come from?."
• FORIS, Christine, author. 1978. "Verbs of motion in Sochiapan Chinantec."
• HOOPERT, Daniel A.; WARKENTIN, Viola M., authors. 1977. Tila Chol ‘come’ and ‘go’ and ‘arrive’.
• KUIPER, Albertha; MERRIFIELD, William R., authors. 1973. "Verbos de movimiento en el mixteco de Diuxi."
• KUIPER, Albertha; MERRIFIELD, William R., authors. 1975. "Diuxi Mixtec verbs of motion and arrival."
• KUIPER, Albertha; MERRIFIELD, William R., authors. 1975. "Verbos de movimiento en el Mixteco de Diuxi."
• TUGGY, David H., author. 1989. The Nahuatl verb maka: a cognitive grammar analysis.

Peru

• Anonymous. 1975. Datos Etno-Lingüísticos 19.  
• LOOS, Betty H.; LOOS, Eugene E., authors. 1973. "La estructura semántica y fonológica de los prefijos verbales en capanahua."  
• MONTAG, Richard, author. 1973. "La estructura semántica de las relaciones entre frases verbales en cashinahua."  
• ZAHN, Charlotte, author. 1975. "Relaciones entre proposiciones verbales en el quechua del Pastaza."  

Suriname

• GLOCK, Naomi, author. 1972. "Role structure in Saramaccan verbs."  

United States

• HENRY, David; HENRY, Kay, authors. 1965. "Koyukon classificatory verbs."

Asia

India

• CHRISTIAN, Immanuel G.; CHRISTIAN, Violet, authors. 1990. "Verb analysis of Garhwali narrative discourse."

Philippines

• BRAINARD, Sherri; MA, Young-Rye, authors. 1998. "Emotion verbs in Bantoanon."
• CENA, R. M., author. 1979. "On resurrecting buried agents in certain Tagalog verbs."  
• ELKINS, Richard E., author. 1977. "Deep structure case, verb stem classes, and Western Bukidnon Manobo lexicography."
• LAW, Rence, author. 1998. "The affix ‘pa’- and movement in Romblomanon."
• LEE, Ernest W., author. 1964. "Non-focus verbs in Maguindanao."
• MCKAUGHAN, Howard P., author. 1962. "Overt relation markers in Maranao."
• MCKAUGHAN, Howard P., author. 1963. "Relation markers in Maranao verbs."
• MILLER, Jeanne, author. 1973. "Semantic structure of Mamanwa verbs."
• RHEA, Mary, author. 1972. "Prefocus and verbal orientation in Sarangani Bilaan."
• RUCH, Edward R., author. 1974. "Role combinations and verb stem classes in Kalamian Tagbanwa."
• WALTON, Charles, author. 1983. Sama verbal semantics: classification, derivation and inflection.
• WALTON, Charles, author. 1986. Sama verbal semantics: Classification, derivation and inflection.  

Pacific

Australia

• GODFREY, Marie P., author. 1997. "Logical propositions in modern Tiwi."

Papua New Guinea

• ALLEN, Jerry, author. 1978. Halia verb morphology: From morpheme to discourse.  
• DEIBLER, Ellis W., author. 1971. "Uses of the verb ‘to say’ in Gahuku."  
• DEIBLER, Ellis W., author. 1976. Semantic relationships of Gahuku verbs.  
• LAEKA, Ali, author. 1989. "Cut—hit—break in Kalo."  
• SCHLIE, Perry; SCHLIE, Virginia, authors. 1988. "Disarming a loaded patient."
• WHITEHEAD, Carl R., author. 1987. "The category ‘relevance’ in Menya verbal morphology."

Solomon Islands

• BOERGER, Brenda H.; LOBER, Ashley, authors. 2009. Spatial relationships in Natügu: micro-level directionals.